WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:10.000 The pet by Ellis Parker Butler. On the morning following 2 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:13.519 his capture of the Hard Boiled Egg, the Riverbank Eagle 3 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:17.160 printed two full columns in praise of Detective Gub and 4 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:21.039 complimented Riverbank on having a superior to Sherlock Holmes. In 5 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:25.839 its midst mister Philo Gubb said, the Eagle has thus 6 00:00:25.879 --> 00:00:28.320 far received only eleven of the twelve lessons from the 7 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:32.560 Rising Sun Detective Agency's Correspondence School of Detecting, and we 8 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:35.479 look for great things from him when he finally receives 9 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:39.000 his diploma and badge. He informed us to day that 10 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:41.920 he hopes to begin work on the Dynamite case soon. 11 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.240 With the money he will receive for capturing the Hard 12 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:49.280 Boiled Egg, mister Gubb intends to purchase eighteen complete disguises 13 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.679 from the supply department of the Rising Sun Detective Agency 14 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:57.159 slocum Ohio. Mister Gubb wishes us to announce that until 15 00:00:57.159 --> 00:00:59.920 the disguises arrive, he will continue to do paper hang 16 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:05.799 decorating an interior painting at reasonable rates. Unfortunately, there were 17 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:09.439 no calls for mister Gubb's detective services for some time 18 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:13.760 after he received his disguises and diploma. But while waiting, 19 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:16.879 he devoted his spare time to the Dynamite Mystery, a 20 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:19.959 remarkable case on which many detectives had been working for 21 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:23.879 many weeks. This led only to his being beaten up 22 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:27.040 twice by Joseph Henry, one of the men he shadowed. 23 00:01:28.120 --> 00:01:31.840 The arrival in Riverbank of the World's Monster Combined Shows 24 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:34.560 the day after mister Gubb received his diplomas seemed to 25 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.359 offer an opportunity for his detective talents, as a circus 26 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:41.920 is usually accompanied by crooks, and early in the morning, 27 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:46.400 mister Gubb donned disguise number sixteen, which was cataloged as 28 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:51.920 Negro hack Driver Complete twenty two dollars. But while looking 29 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.719 for crooks while watching the circus unload, his eyes alighted 30 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:59.879 on Syrilla, known as half a Ton of Beauty, the 31 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:03.959 fat lady of the side show. As Marilla descended from 32 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.159 the car aided by the living skeleton and the strong Man, 33 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:10.719 the fair creature wore a low neck evening gown. Her 34 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:14.719 arms and shoulders were snowy white, except for a peculiar 35 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:18.159 mark on one arm. Not only had mister Gubb never 36 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:20.919 seen such white arms and shoulders, but he had never 37 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:24.280 seen so much arm and shoulder on one woman, and 38 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:27.120 from that moment he was deeply and hopelessly in love, 39 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:30.879 Like one hypnotized. He followed her to the side show tent, 40 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.360 paid his admission, and stood all day before her platform. 41 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:37.280 He was still there when the tent was taken down 42 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.840 that night. Mister Gubb was not the only man in 43 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:44.199 Riverbank to fall in love with Sorilla. When the ladies 44 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:47.120 of the Riverbank Social Service League heard that the circus 45 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:49.319 was coming to town, they were distressed to think how 46 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:52.840 narrow the intellectual life of the side show freaks must be, 47 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:57.680 and they instructed their field secretary, mister Horace Winterbury, to 48 00:02:57.840 --> 00:02:59.759 go to the side show and organize the freaks into 49 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:04.639 an an Ibsen literary and debating society. This mister Winterbury did, 50 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:08.159 and the Tasmanian wild Man was made president. But so 51 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:11.360 deeply did mister Winterbury fall in love with Syrilla that 52 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:14.240 he begged mister Dorgan, the manager of the side show, 53 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.120 to let him join the side show, and this mister 54 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.240 Dorgan did, putting him in a cage as Wah Wah 55 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:25.400 the Mexican Hairless dog man. As mister Winterbury was exceedingly bald, 56 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:29.360 at the very next stop made by the circus, a strong, 57 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:32.080 heavy fisted woman entered the side show and dragged mister 58 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:36.159 Winterbury away. This was his wife. Of this, the ladies 59 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:39.840 of the Riverbank Social Service League knew nothing. However, they 60 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:42.919 believed mister Winterbury had been stolen by the circus, and 61 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.759 that he was doubtless being forced to learn to swing 62 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:49.039 on a trapeze or ride a bareback horse, and they 63 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:53.240 decided to hire Detective Gubb to find and return him. 64 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:56.120 At the very moment when the ladies were deciding to 65 00:03:56.159 --> 00:03:59.159 retain mister Gubb's service as the paperhanger, detective was on 66 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:02.439 his way to do a job of paper hanging, thinking 67 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:05.960 of the fair Syrilla he might never see again, when 68 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:08.520 suddenly he put down the pail of paste he was 69 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:11.919 carrying and grasped the handle of his paste brush more firmly. 70 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.759 He stared with amazement and fright at a remarkable creature 71 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:18.120 that came toward him from a small thicket near the 72 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:22.519 railway tracks. Mister Gubb's first and correct impression was that 73 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:26.399 this was some remarkable creature escaped from the circus. The 74 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:31.360 horrid thing loping toward him was indeed the Tasmanian wild Man. 75 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:35.199 As the wild man approached, Philo Gub, prepared to defend himself. 76 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:38.120 He was prepared to defend himself to his last drop 77 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.680 of blood. When half way across the field, the Tasmanian 78 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:44.639 wild man glanced back over his shoulder, and, as if 79 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:47.920 fearing pursuit, increased his speed and came toward Philo Gub 80 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:52.399 in great leaps and bounds. The correspondent school detective waved 81 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:56.160 his pastebrush more frantically than ever. The Tasmanian wild man 82 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:00.639 stopped short within six feet of him. Viewed thus closely, 83 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.480 the wild man was a sight to curdle. The blood 84 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:07.240 remnants of chains hung from his wrists and ankles. His 85 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:09.800 long hair was matted about his face, and his finger 86 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:13.360 nails were long and claw like. His face was daubed 87 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:16.120 with ochre and red, with black rings around the eyes, 88 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:19.279 and the circles within the rings were painted white, giving 89 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:23.600 him an air of wildness possessed by but few wild men. 90 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.600 His only garments were a pair of very short trunks 91 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:29.319 and the skin of some wild animal, bound about his 92 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:33.279 body with ropes of horse hair. Filo Gub bent to 93 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:36.000 receive the leap. He felt the Tasmanian wild Man was 94 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:38.879 about to make but to his surprise, the wild man 95 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:41.959 held up one hand in token of amity, and with 96 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.399 the other removed the matted hair from his head, revealing 97 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:48.639 an under crop of taffy. Yellow neatly parted in the 98 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:53.399 middle and smoothed back carefully. I say, old Chap, he said, 99 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:56.360 in a pleasant and well bred tone, stop waving that 100 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.959 dangerous looking weapon at me, will you? My intentions are 101 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.920 most kindly, I assure you. Can you inform me where 102 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:06.680 a chap can get a pair of trousers hereabout? Philo 103 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:10.000 Gubb's experienced eye saw at once that this creature was 104 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.879 less wild than he was painted. He lowered his pastebrush. 105 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.079 Come into this house, said Philo Gubb. Inside the house 106 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:21.439 we can discuss pants and calmness. The Tasmanian wild man 107 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:25.680 accepted now, then, said Philo Gubb. When they were safe 108 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:29.040 in the kitchen, he seated himself on a roll of wallpaper, 109 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:31.839 and a Tasmanian wild Man, whose real name was Waldo 110 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:37.120 Emerson Snooks, told his brief story. Upon graduating from Harvard, 111 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:40.920 he had sought employment offering to furnish entertainment by the evening, 112 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:44.959 reading an essay entitled the Comparative Mentality of Ibsen and 113 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.040 Emerson with side lights on the effect of turnip diet 114 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:51.160 at Brook Farm, but the agency was unable to get 115 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:55.120 him any engagements. They happened, however, to receive a request 116 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.360 from mister Dorgan, manager of the side show, asking for 117 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:02.040 a Tasmanian wild man, and mister Snooks had taken the job. 118 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.279 To his own surprise, he made an excellent wild man. 119 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:09.319 He was able to rattle his chains, dash up and 120 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.199 down the cage, gnaw the iron bars of the cage, 121 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.720 eat raw meat and howl as no other Tasmanian wild 122 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:19.040 man had ever done those things, and all would have 123 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:22.040 been well if an interloper had not entered the side show. 124 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:26.839 The interloper was mister Winterbury, who had introduced the subject 125 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.439 of Ibsen's plays, and in a discussion of them, the 126 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:33.560 Tasmanian wild Man and mister Hoxy the strong man had quarreled, 127 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:37.000 and mister Hoxy had threatened to tear mister Snook's limb 128 00:07:37.079 --> 00:07:40.279 from limb, and he would have done so, said the 129 00:07:40.279 --> 00:07:43.439 Tasmanian wild Man with emotion. If I had not fled, 130 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:46.959 I dare not return. I mean to work my way 131 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:50.079 back to Boston and give up Tasmanian wild manning as 132 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:55.399 a profession. But I cannot without pants. I guess you can't, 133 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:59.279 said Philo Gubb. In any station of Boston's life, pants 134 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.000 is expected to be worn. So the question is, old chap, 135 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:06.839 where am I to be panted? Said Waldo Emerson snooks. 136 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.560 I can't pant you, said Philo Gubb, but I can 137 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:15.680 overall you. The late Tasmanian wild Man was most grateful. 138 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:18.600 When he was dressed in the overalls and had wiped 139 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:20.920 the grease paint from his face on an old rag. 140 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.480 No one would have recognized him. And as for thanks, 141 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:28.480 said Philo Gub, don't mention it. A detecative gent is 142 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.800 obliged to keep up a set of disguises hitherto unsuspected 143 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.960 by the mortal world. This Tasmanian wild Man outfit will 144 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:38.799 do for a hermit disguise, so you don't owe me 145 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:43.559 no thanks. As Philo Gubb watched Waldo Emerson Snook start 146 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:47.039 in the direction of Boston, only some thirteen hundred miles away, 147 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:50.039 he had no idea how soon he would have occasion 148 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:54.240 to use the Tasmanian wild Man disguise. But hardly had 149 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.799 the wild man departed than a small boy came to 150 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:59.480 summon mister Gubb. And it was with a sense of 151 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.360 elation and importance that he appeared before the meeting of 152 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:07.679 the Riverbank Ladies Social Service League. And so said Missus 153 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.200 Garthwaite at the close of the interview. You understand us, 154 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:15.799 mister Gubb, Yes, ma'am, said Philo Gubb. What you want 155 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:19.360 me to do is find mister Winterbury, Ain't it exactly 156 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:23.919 agreed Missus Garthwaite. And when found, said mister Gubb, the 157 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:27.799 said stolen goods is to be returned to you just so, 158 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:31.559 and the fiends in human form that stole him are 159 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:34.879 to be given thee full limit of the law. They 160 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:38.720 certainly deserve it abducting a nice little gentleman like mister Winterbury, 161 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:43.159 said Missus Garthwaite. They do, indeed, said Philo Gubb, and 162 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.200 they shall be. I would only ask how far you 163 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.960 want me to arrest? If the manager of the side 164 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:52.240 show stole him, My natural and professional detecative instincts would 165 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:54.840 tell me to arrest the manager. And if the whole 166 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.679 side show stole him, I would make bold to arrest 167 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:01.159 the whole side show. But if the whole circus stole him, 168 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.120 am I to arrest the whole circus? And if so, 169 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:07.480 ought I to include the menagerie. Ought I to arrest 170 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:12.159 the elephants and the camels. Arrest only those in human form, 171 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:16.320 said Missus Garthwaite. Philo Gubb sat straight and put his 172 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:20.519 hands on his knees in referring to human form, ma'am, 173 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:25.320 He asked, do you include them orangutangs and apes? I do, 174 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:30.120 said Missus Garthwaite. Association with criminals has probably inclined their 175 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:35.039 poor minds to criminality. Yes, ma'am, said Philo Gubb, rising, 176 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:38.960 I leave on this case by the first train. Mister 177 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:42.399 Gubb hastily packed the Tasmanian garment and six other disguises 178 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:45.120 in his suit case, put the fourteen dollars given him 179 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.960 by Missus Garthwaite in his pocket, and hurried to catch 180 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:52.080 the train for Bardville, where the World's Monster Combined shows 181 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:55.879 were to show the next day. With true detective caution, 182 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:00.399 Philo Gubb disguised even this simple act. Having packed his suitcase, 183 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.360 mister Gubb rapped it carefully in Manila paper and inserted 184 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:06.919 a laundry ticket under the twine. Thus anyone seeing him 185 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.360 might well suppose he was returning from the laundry and 186 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.200 not going to Bardville. To make this scene the more likely, 187 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:17.559 he donned his Chinese disguise number seventeen, consisting of a 188 00:11:17.639 --> 00:11:21.159 pink skull like wig with a long pigtail, a blue jumper, 189 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:25.240 and a yellow complexion. Mister Gubb rubbed his face with 190 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:29.039 crude ochre powder, and his complexion was a little high, 191 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.360 being more the hue of a pumpkin than the true 192 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.679 oriental skin tint. Those he met on his way to 193 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.360 the station imagined he was in the last stages of 194 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:42.320 yellow fever, and fled from him hastily. He reached the 195 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:44.879 station just as the train's wheels began to move, and 196 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:47.559 he was springing up the steps onto the platform of 197 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:51.039 the last car when a hand grasped his arm. He 198 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:53.720 turned his head and saw that the man grasping him 199 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:59.120 was Jonas Meadowbrook, one of Riverbank's wealthiest men. Gub, I 200 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:03.559 want you, shouted Meadowbrook energetically, but Philo Gubb shook off 201 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:08.399 the detaining arm. Mino savi melek and talkie. He jabbered 202 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:13.000 bunting mister Meadowbrook off the car step bright and early. 203 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:15.919 The next morning, Philo Gubb gave himself a healthy coat 204 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:19.360 of tan with rather high color on his cheek bones 205 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:23.159 from his collection of beards and mustaches, carefully tagged from 206 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:26.600 number one to number eighteen in harmony with the types 207 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:29.240 of disguises mentioned in the twelve Lessons of the Rising 208 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:33.720 Sun Detective Agency's Correspondence School of Detecting. He selected mustache 209 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:37.879 number eight and inserted the spring wires into his nostrils. 210 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:42.240 Mustache number eight was a long, deadly black mustache with 211 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.960 upcurled ends, and when Philo Gubb had donted, he had 212 00:12:45.960 --> 00:12:50.159 a most sinister appearance, particularly as he failed to remove 213 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:54.279 the string tag which bore the legend number eight Gambler 214 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:58.000 or card Sharp, manufactured and sold by the Rising Sun 215 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:03.080 Detective Agency's Correspondence School of Detecting Supply Bureau. Having put 216 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:06.320 on this mustache, mister Gubb took a common splint market 217 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:08.639 basket from under the bed and placed it in the 218 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:12.080 matted hair of the Tasmanian wild Man. His make up 219 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.440 materials a small mirror, two towels, a cake of soap, 220 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:19.480 The Tasmanian wild man's animal skin robe, the hair rope, 221 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:23.399 and the abbreviated trunks. He covered these with a newspaper. 222 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:27.559 The sun was just rising when he reached the railway siding, 223 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:30.240 and hardly had mister Gubb arrived when the work of 224 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:34.879 unloading the circus began. Mister Gubb, searching for the abducted 225 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:38.960 mister Winterbury, sped rapidly from place to place, the string 226 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:42.159 tag on his mustache napping over his shoulder, but he 227 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:45.919 saw no one answering missus Garthwaite's description of mister Winterbury. 228 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:49.440 When the tent wagons had departed, the elephants and camels 229 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.039 were unloaded, but mister Winterbury did not seem to be 230 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:55.759 concealed among them, and the animal cages which came next 231 00:13:55.799 --> 00:14:00.480 were all tightly closed. There were four or five cars, however, 232 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:04.120 that attracted Philo Gubb's attention, and one in particular made 233 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:08.399 his heart beat rapidly. This car bore the words World's 234 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:13.080 monster combined Show's freak car, and as mister Winterbury had 235 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.639 gone as a social reform agent to the side show, 236 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.639 mister Gubb rightly felt that here, if anywhere, he would 237 00:14:18.679 --> 00:14:21.799 find a clue and he was doubly agitated, since he 238 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:26.600 knew the beautiful Syrilla was doubtless in that car. Walking 239 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.360 around the car, he heard the door at one end open. 240 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:33.279 He crouched under the platform, his ears and eyes on edge. 241 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:36.480 Hardly was he concealed Before the head ruffian of the 242 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:41.559 unloading gang approached mister Dorgan. He said, in quite another 243 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.679 tone than he had used to his laborers. Should I 244 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:48.600 fetch that wild man cage to the grounds for you today? No, 245 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:52.159 said Dorgon. What's the use I don't like an empty 246 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:55.159 cage standing around. Leave it on the car, Jake, or 247 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:58.080 hold on, I'll use it. Take it up to the 248 00:14:58.080 --> 00:14:59.960 grounds and put it in the side show as usual. 249 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:04.039 I'll put the pet in it, are ye foolin? Asked 250 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.120 the loading boss with a grin. The cage won't know itself, 251 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:10.360 mister Dorgan, after holdin that rip snortin wild man to 252 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:14.240 be holdin a cold corpse like the pet is never 253 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:17.639 you mind, said Dorgon shortly. I know my business, Jake, 254 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:19.879 You and I know the pet is a dead one, 255 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:22.600 but these country yaps don't know it. I might as 256 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:24.480 well make some use of the remains as long as 257 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:28.159 I've got em one hand. Who are you going to fool, sweetie, 258 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.799 asked a voice, and mister Dorgan looked around to see Sorilla, 259 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:36.480 the Fat Lady, standing in the car door. Oh just folks, 260 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:40.600 said Dorgon, laughing. You're going to use the pet, said 261 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:43.759 the fat lady, reproachfully. And I don't think it's nice 262 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.279 of you say what you will, mister Dorgan. A corpse 263 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:48.480 is a corpse, and a respectable side show ain't no 264 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.360 place for it. I wish you would take it out 265 00:15:51.399 --> 00:15:53.440 in the lot and bury it like I wanted you to, 266 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:55.879 or throw it in the river and get rid of it, 267 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:00.519 won't you, deary, I will not, said mister Dorgan firmly. 268 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.240 A corpse may be a corpse, Sorilla, any place but 269 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:06.480 in the circus. But in a circus, it's a feature. 270 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:09.799 He's going to be one of the seven sleepers, one 271 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:14.080 of what, asked Sorilla. One of the seven sleepers, said Dorgan. 272 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.399 I'm going to put him in the cage the wild 273 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:18.320 Man was in, and I'm going to tell the audience 274 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:21.840 he's asleep. He looks dead, I'll say, but I give 275 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:25.320 my word he's only asleep. We offer five thousand dollars. 276 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:27.799 I'll say to any man, woman, or child that proves 277 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:31.039 contrary than that. We have documents proven that this human 278 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:33.799 being in this cage fell asleep in the year eighteen 279 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:37.519 thirty seven and has been sleeping ever since, the longest 280 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.320 nap on record. I'll say that'll fetch a laugh. And 281 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:44.000 you don't care, dearie, that I'll be creepy all through 282 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:48.080 the show, do you, said, Sorilla, I won't care a hang, 283 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:53.240 said Dorgan. Mister Gubb glided noiselessly from under the car 284 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:55.840 and sped away. He had hurt enough to know that 285 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:59.360 deviltry was afoot. There was no doubt in his mind 286 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:02.159 that the pet was the late mister Winterbury. For if 287 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:05.680 ever a man deserved to be called pet, mister Winterbury, 288 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:09.920 according to missus Garthwaite's description, was that man. There was 289 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:12.359 no doubt that mister Winterbury had been murdered, and that 290 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.279 these heartless wretches meant to make capital of his body. 291 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:19.240 The inference was logical, It was a strong clue, and 292 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:24.200 mister Gubb hurried to the circus grounds to study the situation. No, 293 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:28.160 said Syrilla, tearfully, you don't care a hang for the 294 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:30.680 nerves of the lady in gent freaks under your care, 295 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:33.839 mister Dorgan. It's nothing to you if repulsion from that 296 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:36.839 corpse like Pet dragged seventy or eighty pounds of fat 297 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:39.880 off of me for you well know what. My contract 298 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.519 is so much a week, and so much for each 299 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:45.640 additional pound of fat, and the less fat I am, 300 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:47.759 the less you have to add on to your pay roll. 301 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:50.640 The day that Pet come to this show, first I 302 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:54.279 fainted outright and busted down the platform. But little do 303 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:58.960 you care, mister Dorgan. Don't you worry? You didn't murder him, 304 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:04.720 said mister Dorgan. He looks so lifelike, sobbed Sorilla. Oh 305 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:09.079 Hooxy shouted mister Dorgan. Yes, sir, said the strong man 306 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:12.200 coming to the car door. Take Sorilla in and tell 307 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:14.119 the girls to put ice on her head. She's getting 308 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:16.920 hysterics again. And when you've told him, go go up 309 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:19.160 to the grounds and tell Blake and Skinny to unpack 310 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.240 the petrified man. Tell him I'm going to use him 311 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:24.799 again to day. And if he's lookin shop worn, have 312 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:26.880 one of the men go over his complexion and make 313 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:31.079 him look nice and life like. Mister Dorgan swung off 314 00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:34.920 from the car step and walked away. The petrified man 315 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:38.519 had been one of his mistakes. In days past, petrified 316 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:41.319 men had been important side show features, and mister Dorgan 317 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:44.480 had supposed the time had come to reintroduce them, and 318 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:47.759 he had had an excellent petrified man made of concrete, 319 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:50.759 with steel reinforcements in the legs and arms, and a 320 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:55.799 body of hollow tile so that it could stand rough travel. Unfortunately, 321 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:58.160 the features of the petrified man had been entrusted to 322 00:18:58.200 --> 00:19:02.240 an artist devoted to the making of clothing dummies. Instead 323 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:05.480 of an Aztec or cave dweller. Cast in the countenance, 324 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:08.640 he had given the petrified man the simpering features of 325 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:12.880 the wax figures seen in cheap clothing stores. The result 326 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:15.400 was that instead of gazing at the petrified man with 327 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.279 awe as a wonder of nature, the audiences laughed at him, 328 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:23.160 and the living freaks dubbed him the pet or still 329 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:27.000 more rudely, the corpse, And when the glass case broke 330 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:29.119 at the end of the week, mister Dorton ordered the 331 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:32.920 pet packed in a box. Just now, however, the flight 332 00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:36.119 of the Tasmanian wild man and the involuntary departure of 333 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.720 mister Winterbury at the command of his wife. After his 334 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:42.480 short appearance as wah Wah the Mexican Hairless dog Man, 335 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:47.599 suggested the new use for the petrified man. When Detective 336 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:50.720 Gub reached the circus grounds, the glaring banners had not 337 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:53.680 yet been erected before the side show tent, but all 338 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:56.240 the tents except the big top were up, and all 339 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.000 hands were at work on that. One. Were supposed to 340 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:03.119 be two were not. Two of the roughest looking roustabouts, 341 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:06.079 after glancing here and there, glided into the property tent 342 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:09.480 and concealed themselves behind a pile of blue cases, hampers, 343 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:13.240 and canvas bags. One of them immediately drew from under 344 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:15.960 his coat a small but heavy parcel wrapped in an 345 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:19.880 old rag. Say cull, he said, in a coarse voice. 346 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.759 You sure have got a head on you. This here 347 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:24.799 stuff will be just as safe in there as in 348 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:29.279 the bank. See gimme the screwdriver, not to be opened 349 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:32.920 until Chicago, said the other gleefully, pointing to the words 350 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.599 daubed on one of the blue cases. But I guess 351 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:39.559 it will be hay old pal, I guess. So together 352 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:42.039 they removed the lid of the box, and detective cubs 353 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:44.720 seeking the side show, crawled under the wall of the 354 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:47.480 property tent, just in time to see the two Ruffians 355 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:50.440 hurriedly jam their parcel into the case and screw the 356 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:54.279 lid in place again. Mister Gubb's mustache was now in 357 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:57.839 a diagonal position, but little he cared for that. His 358 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.319 eyes were fastened on the countenance of the two rousedabouts. 359 00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:04.920 The men were easy to remember. One was red headed 360 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:07.599 and pock marked, and the other was dark, and the 361 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:10.240 lobes of his ears were slit, as if someone had 362 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:13.759 at some time forcibly removed a pair of rings from them. 363 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:17.279 Very quietly, Philo Gubb wiggled backwards out of the tent, 364 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:19.880 but as he did so, his eyes caught a word 365 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.200 painted on the side of the blue case. It was pet. 366 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:28.680 Mister Gubb proceeded to the next tent. Stooping, he peered inside, 367 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:30.799 and what he saw satisfied him that he had found 368 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:33.799 the side show. Around the inside of the tent, men 369 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:37.079 were erecting a blue platform, and on the far side 370 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:40.920 four men were wheeling a tongueless cage into place. A 371 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:43.240 door at the backside of the cage swung open and 372 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:46.039 shut as the men moved the cage, but another in 373 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:50.200 front was securely bolted and barred. Mister Gubb lowered the 374 00:21:50.240 --> 00:21:53.759 tent wall and backed away. It was into this cage 375 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:56.200 that the body of mister Winterbury was to be put 376 00:21:56.359 --> 00:22:00.000 to make a public holiday for yokels, and the murder 377 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:06.400 was still at large. Murderer, murderers, For who were the 378 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:08.880 two rough characters he had seen tampering with the case 379 00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:11.880 containing the remains of the pet? What had they been 380 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:15.119 putting in the case. If not the murderers, they were 381 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:20.319 surely accomplices. Walking like a wary flamingo, mister Gubb circled 382 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:23.680 the tent. He saw mister Dorgan and Syrilla enter it. 383 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:27.759 Himself hidden in a clump of bushes. He saw mister Lonardon, 384 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:30.839 the living Skeleton, mister Hoxey, the strong Man, Major Ching, 385 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:34.839 the Chinese Giant, General Thumb, the Dwarf, Princess Zozo, the 386 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:38.720 Serpent Charmer, Maggie the Sircassian girl, and the rest of 387 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:42.279 the sideshow employees enter the tent. Then he removed his 388 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:44.960 number eight mustache and put it in his pocket, and 389 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:49.279 balanced his mirror against a twig. Mister Gubb was changing 390 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:53.440 his disguise. For a while, the lady and gentleman Freak 391 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:58.359 stood talking, casting reproachful glances at mister Dorgan. Crilla with 392 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:00.799 traces of tears on her face, with complaining of the 393 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:03.519 cruel man who insisted that the pet become part of 394 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.759 the show once more, and mister Dorgan was resisting their reproaches. 395 00:23:08.839 --> 00:23:11.480 I'm the boss of the show, he said, firmly. I'm 396 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:13.880 going to use that cage, and I'm going to use 397 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:18.480 that pet. Couldn't you put Orlando in it and get 398 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:22.839 up a spiel about him, asked Princess Zozo, whose largest 399 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.279 serpent was called Orlando. If you got him a bottle 400 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:28.759 of cold cream from the make up tent, he'd lie 401 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:31.400